Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners. Slight curve to tail right corner.

Against the backdrop of Darwin, that small, tropical hothouse of a port, half-outback, half-oriental, lying at the tip of northern Australia, a young and newly arrived southerner encounters the 'maestro', a Viennese refugee with a shadowed past. The occasion is a piano lesson, the first of many... (back cover)